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Double Entry Inventory

The unique Odoo double entry inventory management allows full traceability from the supplier to the customer. Nothing is lost, everything is moved.

Mobile

Scan products in your warehouse using the barcode scanner. Control your dashboards and track orders wherever you are.

Corrected posted transactions

You are now able to update any transaction (picking, manufacturing order) after being posted through the new lock/unlock button.

Modern User Interface

A fast user interface designed for modern inventory management. Get more work done with less effort with or without barcode scanners.

Flexible

Easily manage a single inventory or a complex multi-warehouses environment by activating features on demand.


Basic Operations

Delivery Orders

Pack orders and deliver with or without barcode scanners. Odoo prepares delivery orders for you based on availabilities.

Inventory Adjustments

Do an inventory for a zone, a specific product, a lot or a pallet/box; Odoo prepares cycle counts for you.

Multiple Locations

Use hierarchical locations to structure your warehouse: zones, rows, shelves, etc.

Manufacturing, Repairs

Use extra apps to manage manufacturing orders, repairs orders, etc.

Receipts

Control incoming products and compare to what was ordered from the supplier.

Packing

Pack products in just a click and assign barcodes to packs for an easy tracking of the orders.

Scrap Products

Scrap products in just a few clicks and get clear reports on scrap: their costs, reasons and volumes.

Stock Transfers

Use the simple transfer interface to move products from one location to another.


Advanced Routing

Drop-shipping

Deliver to customers straight from your supplier based on products, orders or customers.

Cross-Docking

Unload incoming material and directly transfer to outbound gates with little to no storage in between.

Put away & Removal strategies

Define your own storage and removal strategies; fifo, nearest available zone, lifo, etc.

Pick - Pack - Ship

Design your own order process flow. Deliver to customers in one step (delivery order) or several steps: picking, packing, shipping.

Push & Pull Routes

Design your own product routes to automate transfer orders between warehouses or locations.

Multi-Warehouses

Manage all your warehouses with the same system and define replenishment rules between warehouses.


Productivity

Barcode Scanners

Nice unified interface. Use barcode scanners for every inventory operation: inventories, incoming shipments, packing orders, etc. Scan the goods and confirm the reception or sending of those only through the scanner (no keyboard needed). Support EAN13, EAN14.

Customer Portal

Your customer can track their order status into the customer portal: orders, invoices, delivery order status, etc.

Custom Alerts

Define alerts on products or suppliers that should appear for a salesperson when they make quotations.

Smart Scheduler

Odoo's scheduler will trigger all operations automatically for you based on product availabilities and forecasts of orders.

Powerful search

Search documents to process easily. Just scan a barcode or filter based on any criteria: customer, product, etc.


Replenishments

Minimum Stock

Have proposition of purchase orders (or request for quotations) created by Odoo based on your future stock forecast.

Request for Quotations

Want to negotiate a price with suppliers every time you buy a specific product? Odoo can trigger request for quotations automatically based on future needs.

Make-to-Order

Purchase raw materials or manufacture products to order. Define your own routes specific to warehouses, products, orders, etc.


Traceability

Activity Log

Have the history of all operations attached to every document (picking, delivery order, quality control) for full traceability.

Serial Numbers Tracking

Tracks manufacturer lots with barcode or serial numbers. Define and choose which transactions require tracking (delivery orders, receptions, internal moves, etc.)

Perpetual Valuation

Get your inventory valuation posted in real time in your accounting software for an accurate balance sheet in real time.


Products

Product Types

Odoo supports several product types that have different behaviour: physical products, consumables, services, digital products.

Custom fields

Add as many custom fields as you want on products to handle your business needs.

Expiration Dates

Track expiration dates on products.

Multiple unit of measures

Odoo supports multiple unit of measures and converts automatically for you: buy per tons and sell in kg.

Multiple barcodes

Create custom barcodes with specific codes to implement desired behaviors, such as a specific promotion.


Inventory Valuation

Costing Methods

Odoo WMS supports FIFO, Average Cost (AVCO) and Standard Price for product costing methods.

Landed Costs

Reincorporate landed costs into your product cost to get an accurate valuation of your inventory.

Valuation Methods

Use continental or Anglo-Saxon accounting (to record cost of goods sold)

Perpetual Inventory Valuation

Set up perpetual (real time, automated) or periodic inventory valuation mode by product.


Reporting

Dashboard

Use predefined dashboards or build your own with the advanced reporting engine. Share filters with the team.

Inventory Forecast

Get forecasts of product availabilities based on confirmed sales orders, purchase orders or manufacturing orders as well as internal moves.


Integrations

Accounting

Have all your inventory operations impact your accounting in real time or periodically.

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Purchases

Automate proposition of purchase orders and control products coming from your suppliers in just a few clicks.

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Sales

Automatically schedule all your inventory operations based on sales orders.

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Quality

Define quality control points and trigger quality alerts easily. 

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Shipping Connectors

We support UPS, USPS, Fedex, bPost, DHL and EasyPost. EasyPost integrates with tons of other carriers. Get an instant quote on your packs. Generate the sending labels from the shipper. Order automatically from the right shipment company. Track and trace your packages from Odoo.

Powerful API

Make Odoo WMS do pretty much anything with the API: integrate with 3PL, integrate hardware (scales, scanners, RFID), etc.